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David Robert Jones OAL (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie (/ˈboʊi/ BOH-ee), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, Bowie is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft had a significant impact on popular music.
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Vintage David Bowie Signature. Sold for Nearly $1,000.
Here are some art items and music memorabilia we have sold at Nate D. Sanders Auctions:
David Bowie Signed Album Cover of “Aladdin Sane” — With Roger Epperson COA
David Bowie signed album cover of “Aladdin Sane” with the iconic photograph of a lightning bolt painted on Bowie’s face, one of the most recognizable album covers of all time. Cover is signed and dated 1991 in silver pen by Bowie. Album measures 12.25″ square, with record included. A bit of edgewear to front of album and small spot of abrasion to back. Overall in very good plus condition. With Roger Epperson COA. Sold for $3,414.
David Bowie signed limited edition of ”The Rise of David Bowie, 1972-1973” by his photographer Mick Rock, featuring hundreds of images of Bowie, many previously unpublished from his days as Ziggy Stardust. New York: Taschen, 2015, #489 of a limited edition of 1,972 copies. Elaborate large format book features a lenticular cover with several portrait shots of Bowie, opening to reveal a glimpse in the rock star’s life during those influential early days when, as Mick Rock states, ”He wasn’t thinking about money, he was thinking about stardom.” Book is beautifully bound in blue-green boards, housed in a custom matching clamshell box measuring 13.5” x 18.75”. Shallow scratch across cover, otherwise near fine condition. Sold for $2,000.
David Bowie Signed Limited Edition of ”From Station to Station Travels With Bowie 1973-1976”
David Bowie signed limited edition of ”From Station to Station”, the travelogue written by Bowie’s childhood friend Geoff MacCormack, who provided backup to Bowie during the years of 1973-1976. One of the limited edition, #1,829 of 2,000, signed by Bowie on a ”While You Were Out” bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Also signed by MacCormack on the limitation page. Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2007. With a colorful forward by Bowie, MacCormack provides a thee-year diary entry of Bowie’s tour life, from Ziggy Stardust and ”Aladdin Sane” to ”Diamond Dogs”, ”Young Americans” and ”Station to Station” with 200 photos documenting the journey. Bound in red quarter-leather with all edges gilt, beautifully constructed book is designed to resemble a worn luggage bag. In custom-made clamshell box, magnetized to protect the book inside. Box measures 10.25” x 13.25”, snugly fitting the book. Finished with a custom cloth bag and in original shipping box. Fine condition. Sold for $1,600.
David Bowie Signed Limited Edition Taschen Book
David Bowie signed limited edition of “The Rise of David Bowie, 1972-1973” by his photographer Mick Rock, featuring hundreds of images of Bowie, many previously unpublished from his days as Ziggy Stardust. New York: Taschen, 2015, #489 of a limited edition of 1,972 copies. Elaborate large format book features a lenticular cover with several portrait shots of Bowie, opening to reveal a glimpse in the rock star’s life during those influential early days when, as Mick Rock states, “He wasn’t thinking about money, he was thinking about stardom.” Book is beautifully bound in blue-green boards, housed in a custom matching clamshell box measuring 13.5″ x 18.75″. Shallow scratch across cover, otherwise near fine condition. Sold for $1,000.
Bob Dylan Signed, Handwritten Lyrics to “Like a Rolling Stone” — The Quintessential Rock Song — With COA From Dylan’s Manager
One of the most covered and influential songs of all time, “Like a Rolling Stone” lyrics are here handwritten and signed by their creator, Bob Dylan. With this song, Dylan reinvigorated his passion for his own work and fully embraced rock music as a complement to folk. Clocking in at 6 1/2 minutes long, the song was initially thought too long to be commercially successful, until listeners in the mid-60s harassed radio stations to play it in its entirety. “Like a Rolling Stone” has been covered by Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and countless others, and inspired even more. Bruce Springsteen first heard it when he was 15 years old: “on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind…The way that Elvis freed your body, Dylan freed your mind, and showed us that because the music was physical did not mean it was anti-intellect. He had the vision and talent to make a pop song so that it contained the whole world. He invented a new way a pop singer could sound, broke through the limitations of what a recording could achieve, and he changed the face of rock’n’roll for ever and ever.” Handwritten lyrics read in full:
“Like a Rolling Stone
Once upon a time you dressed so fine threw the bums a dime in your prime didn’t you
People call say beware doll you’re bound to fall you thought they were all kiddin’ you
You used to laugh about everybody that was hanging out
Now you don’t talk so loud now you don’t act so proud
’bout having to be scrounging for your next meal
How does it feel How does it feel
To be on your own, with no direction home like a complete unknown
Like a Rolling Stone
You’ve gone to the finest school all right Miss Lonely but you know you only used to get juiced in it
Nobody ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you’re gonna have to get used to it
You said you’d never compromise with the mystery tramp but now you realize
He’s not selling any alibi and you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal
How does it feel how does it feel
To be on your own with no direction home like a complete unknown
Like a Rolling Stone
You’ve never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers or the clowns when they all came down and did tricks for you
You’ve never understood it ain’t no good you should never let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Aint it hard when you discover that he really wasn’t where it’s at
After he’s taken everything he can steal
How does it feel How does it feel
To be on your own with no direction home like a complete unknown
Like a Rolling Stone
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people drinking thinkin’ that they got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts and things, you better take your diamond rings, you better pawn ’em babe
You used to be so amused at Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now he calls you and you can’t refuse. When you got nothing you got nothing to lose
You’re invisible you got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel how does it feel
To be on your own with no direction home like a complete unknown
Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan”
Single page measures 8.5″ x 11″. In near fine condition. With COA from Jeff Rosen, Bob Dylan’s manager. Sold for $90,000.
Bob Dylan Handwritten & Signed Lyrics to “The Times They Are a-Changin’” — The Song of a Generation
Scarce handwritten and signed lyrics by Nobel-Prize winning lyricist Bob Dylan of his classic, “The Times They Are a-Changin’”. Considered one of the greatest songs ever written, its powerful lyrics have transcended the political turbulence of the 1960s that gave birth to them to inspire subsequent generations, revealing their timelessness in the human experience. In recent years, Dylan has shied away from playing his masterpiece in concert which has imbued it with an almost mythical quality. Dozens of major recording artists have covered the song through the years, including Simon & Garfunkel, Peter Paul & Mary, The Beach Boys, Nina Simone, Billy Joel, Joan Baez, Tracy Chapman, Bryan Ferry and Bruce Springsteen to name a few. Dylan wrote the song in the fall of 1963, shortly after Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, wanting to create an anthem for social justice. As he said, folk music and the Civil Rights movement were natural allies and he felt he could make a contribution to the movement by writing a powerful, “hypnotic” anthem. It is one of the songs that earned Dylan a Nobel Prize in Literature, as the Nobel Committee wrote: “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Handwritten lyrics by Dylan read in full, “The Times They Are-A-Changin’ Come gather around people wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth saving Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are-a-changing Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide the chance won’t come again And don’t speak too soon for the wheel’s still in spin And there’s no telling who that it’s naming For the loser now will be later to win For the times they are-a-changing Come senators congressmen please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway don’t block up the hall He that gets hurt will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside and it’s raging It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls For the times they are-a-changin’ Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don’t criticize what you can’t understand Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly aging Get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand For the times they are-a-changin’ The line it is drawn the curse it is cast The slow one now will later be fast As the present now will later be past The order is rapidly fading And the first one now will later be last For the times they are-a-changin’ Bob Dylan”
Handwritten lyrics and signature have been authenticated by Bob Dylan’s manager. Single page measures 8.5″ x 11″. In near fine condition. Apart from the original draft, these are the only known lyrics of “The Times They Are a-Changin’” that have been offered at auction. Sold for $89,505.
Bob Dylan Signed, Handwritten Lyrics to “Like a Rolling Stone” — The Quintessential Rock Song
One of the most covered and influential songs of all time, “Like a Rolling Stone” lyrics are here handwritten and signed by their creator, Bob Dylan. With this song, Dylan reinvigorated his passion for his own work and fully embraced rock music (“play it fucking loud” he told his band) as a complement to folk. Clocking in at 6 1/2 minutes long, the song was initially thought too long to be commercially successful, until listeners in the mid-60s harassed radio stations to play it in its entirety. “Like a Rolling Stone” has been covered by Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and countless others, and inspired even more. Bruce Springsteen first heard it when he was 15 years old: “on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind…The way that Elvis freed your body, Dylan freed your mind, and showed us that because the music was physical did not mean it was anti-intellect. He had the vision and talent to make a pop song so that it contained the whole world. He invented a new way a pop singer could sound, broke through the limitations of what a recording could achieve, and he changed the face of rock’n’roll for ever and ever.” Perhaps the greatest mystery in music is trying to figure out who Dylan is referring to in the song — even Andy Warhol has been mentioned — but ultimately, rock historians believe it speaks to anyone, even Dylan himself, who eschews an easy, pretentious life for one that is riskier but ultimately more fulfilling, with “nothing to lose” and “no secrets to conceal”. Handwritten lyrics read in full: “Like a Rolling Stone Once upon a time you dressed so fine threw the bums a dime in your prime didn’t you People call say beware doll you’re bound to fall you thought they were all kiddin’ you You used to laugh about everybody that was hanging out Now you don’t talk so loud, now you don’t act so proud About having to be scrounging around for your next meal How does it feel, how does it feel To be on your own, with no direction home like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone You’ve gone to the finest schools all right Miss Lonely but you know you only used to get juiced in it Nobody ever taught you how to live out on the street And now you find out you’re gonna have to get used to it You said you’d never compromise with the mystery tramp but now you realize He’s not selling any alibi and you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And ask him do you want to make a deal How does it feel How does it feel To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers or the clowns who came down to do tricks for you You never understood it ain’t no good you should never let other people get your kicks for you You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat who carried on his shoulder a Simeze cat Aint it hard when you discover that he really wasn’t where it’s at After he’s taken everything he can steal How does it Feel How does it feel To be on your own with no direction home like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people drinking thinking that they got it made Exchanging all their precious things you better take your diamond rings, you better pawn ’em babe You used to be so amused at Napoleon in rags and the language that he used Go to him now you can’t refuse. When you got nothing you got nothing to lose You’re invisible you got no secrets to conceal How does it feel how does it feel To be on your own with no direction home like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone Bob Dylan” Handwritten lyrics and signature have been authenticated by Bob Dylan’s manager. Single page measures 8.5″ x 11″. In near fine condition. Sold for $71,937.
Bob Dylan signed, handwritten lyrics from November 1961, when Dylan was performing at clubs in New York, shortly after he signed with Columbia Records. Dylan pens a song about Wisconsin, where he lived in late 1960 before moving to New York, and also where he spent time as a teenager at summer camp. The lyrics were given by Dylan to Peter Crago, a musician with whom Dylan briefly lived in New York in 1961. Full uncorrected lyrics by Dylan read,
- Wisconson is the dairy state
I guess you all know well
I was in Wow Wow Toaster there
The truth to you I’ll tell
It’s milk & cheese & cream
I’ve known ’em all my days
I’m going back to my hometown I’m leaving right aways - I’m a heading out Wisconson ways
2000 miles to go
Madison, Milwakee set’s my heart aglow
I’m a coming to that dairy state
My heart’s a beating fast
I’ll pick my banjo gently there
And twiddle my mustache - There’s thoughts I left there long ago
One a coming now it seems
I’ll tune my banjo than the hills
And feast on milk and cream
And stamp my foot all thru the grass
And never know a care
My homes in Wow Wow Toaster
And I’m a going there”
The song continues on the verso:
”1. These people with you city ways
Are driving me insane to drink
My home’s in Wisconson it’s a better place I think
I’ve been in California
My home’s in Wisconson
And I”m gonna own the town”
Several words in the draft are crossed out and replaced, such as ”dreams” being crossed out and replaced with ”thoughts” in section 3. Paper measures approximately 8.5” x 10.75”. Top portion torn off, horizontal fold and light toning, otherwise near fine. With a COA from Roger Epperson. Sold for $24,000.
Excellent Beatles signed concert program – without inscription, for a concert held on 25 April 1963 at Fairfield Hall in Croydon, Surrey. On the two-page spread devoted to The Beatles, each of the Fab Four sign next to their photo in blue ballpoint, ”I Love You / Yours / John Lennon / xxx”, ”Love, / Paul McCartney / xxx”, ”George Harrison / xx” and ”Love / Ringo Starr / [star sign]xx”. The event was organized by London concert promoter John Smith, and also featured John Leyton (who cancelled his appearance), The Big Three, Billy Kramer, and several more acts, with The Beatles headlining. Orange program bound by two staples runs six pages and measures 6.875” x 9.5”. Separation starting along bottom seam, and creasing throughout. Small hole to top right of cover. Overall in very good condition. With Roger Epperson COA for all four signatures. A rare uninscribed Beatles concert program, signed at the cusp of their global fame. Sold for $9,375.
Fantastic set of signatures by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, signed by all three, Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding. Hendrix inscribes the note, ”Love always to Maribeth / Stay Sweet / to an Electric lady / Jimi Hendrix”, adding two hearts and dating the signature to 16 November 1968. Mitchell additionally signs ”Best Witches / Mitch *” and Redding signs, ”love / Noel Redding xxx”. Signatures in pencil are on a piece of ”In flight…American Airlines” stationery, where the recipient, Maribeth, was a stewardess on the band’s flight that day. They were traveling to Cincinnati, Ohio where they were performing that night. Paper measures 7.25” x 10”. Folds and some creasing, and a bit of chipping to right side, otherwise near fine condition. With a COA from Roger Epperson for all three signatures. Sold for $8,236.
Bob Marley Autographed ”Kaya” Album
Bob Marley signed ”Kaya” album, inscribed by the legend in blue ballpoint pen, ”Rasta Love Kaya / Bob Marley”. Released in 1978, ”Kaya” include the iconic songs ”Is This Love” and ”Sun Is Shining”, promoted by Bob Marley & The Wailers in a worldwide tour in 1978, where this autograph was obtained on their stop in Paris in June. Some creasing to album cover, small bit of abrasion at upper left and inconspicuous tape along left side. On the verso is written ”Pascal 78” in orange marker. Vinyl record included, which has some shallow scratching. With Roger Epperson COA. A visually interesting and rare signed piece by Marley, ideal for display. Sold for $6,655.
Bob Dylan Signed Double Album ”Blonde on Blonde”
Bob Dylan signed album, ”Blonde on Blonde”, one of rock’s first double albums released in 1966. Many consider it one of the greatest rock albums of all time, with the classic songs ”Just Like a Woman”, ”Visions of Johanna”, ”I Want You” and ”Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”. Signed by Dylan on the famous blurred focus cover. Measures 12.25” square. Signature has been authenticated by Bob Dylan’s manager and album is from the stock of the manager and Bob Dylan. Near fine condition. Sold for $6,250.
Jerry Lee Lewis Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins Signed Photo
“Million Dollar Quartet” is a recording of an impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash made on December 4, 1956, at the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. An article about the session was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar under the title “Million Dollar Quartet”. The recording was first released in Europe in 1981 as The Million Dollar Quartet with 17 tracks. A few years later more tracks were discovered and released as The Complete Million Dollar Session. In 1990, the recordings were released in the United States as Elvis Presley – The Million Dollar Quartet. This session is considered a seminal moment in rock and roll.
The jam session seems to have happened by pure chance. Perkins, who by this time had already met success with “Blue Suede Shoes”, had come into the studios that day accompanied by his brothers Clayton and Jay and by drummer W.S. Holland, their aim being to record some new material, including a revamped version of an old blues song, “Matchbox”. Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records, who wanted to try to fatten this sparse rockabilly instrumentation, had brought in his latest acquisition, Jerry Lee Lewis, still unknown outside Memphis, to play piano (at the time, a Wurlitzer Spinet) on the Perkins session. Lewis’s first Sun single would be released a few days later. Sometime in the early afternoon, 21-year-old Elvis Presley, a former Sun artist now with RCA Victor, arrived to pay a casual visit accompanied by a girlfriend, Marilyn Evans. After chatting with Phillips in the control room, Presley listened to the playback of Perkins’s session, which he pronounced to be good. Then he went into the studio and some time later, the jam session began. At some point during the session, Sun artist Johnny Cash, who had recently enjoyed a few hit records on the country charts, arrived as well. (Cash wrote in his autobiography Cash that he had been first to arrive at the Sun Studio that day, wanting to listen in on the Perkins recording session.) Jack Clement was engineering that day and remembers saying to himself “I think I’d be remiss not to record this,” and so he did. After running through a number of songs, Elvis and girlfriend Evans slipped out as Jerry Lee pounded away on the piano. Cash wrote in Cash that “no one wanted to follow Jerry Lee, not even Elvis.” Whatever Elvis’s feelings may or may not have been in regard to “following” Lewis, Presley was clearly the “star” of the impromptu jam session, which consisted largely of snippets of gospel songs that the four artists had all grown up singing. The recordings show Elvis, the most nationally and internationally famous of the four at the time, to be the focal point of what was a casual, spur-of-the-moment gathering of four artists who would each go on to contribute greatly to the seismic shift in popular music in the late 1950s.
Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins signed photo of their historic jam session with Elvis Presley on 4 December 1956, an impromptu once-in-a-lifetime recording session of the four men who would shape late 1950s rock ‘n roll. Large 14″ x 11″ glossy photo is signed by Lewis in orange felt-tip and by Cash and Perkins in black felt-tip. Photo is nicely framed to a size of 21.625″ x 17.75″. Not examined out of frame, but appears near fine. With COA from Odyssey Group. Sold for $5,960.
Complete lyrics to Blondie’s 1979 hit song ”Heart of Glass,” signed and written by lead singer Debbie Harry. The glamorous star of punk and new wave imparts a lipstick kiss and signs: ”X Love, Debbie Harry” to the conclusion of the 25-line song. It begins: ”Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out had a heart of glass…” For the last line, she transcribes the famous chorus: ”…Ooh ooh oh!” 2pp. on yellow ruled pages in blue ink. A photo of Harry is affixed near the bottom edge. Matted and framed to an overall size of 22.25 x 18.25”. In near fine condition. Dings to black metal frame, else near fine. Scarce handwritten lyrics signed by Debbie Harry. Sold for $5,530.
Pink Floyd rare signed ”Ummagumma” album, signed by all four band members in large black marker on the album’s front cover: Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason and David Gilmour. The ”Ummagumma” double album, released in October 1969, is considered by many to be one of the best live albums ever produced. Some dampstaining to top edge, light ring wear and partially separated spine. Overall in good plus condition. With a COA from Roger Epperson for all four signatures. Sold for $5,000.
Charlie Daniels handwritten, signed lyrics to one of the most iconic songs of all time, ”The Devil Went Down to Georgia”, along with signed sheet music for the song. One of the most memorized, recited, downloaded and beloved songs of the 20th century, ”The Devil Went Down to Georgia” went RIAA Platinum ten years after its release in 1979. Daniels handwrites the lyrics, describing Johnny’s successful deal with the devil on a sheet of 14” x 17” paper, affixed to red mat underneath sheet music for the song, also signed by Charlie Daniels. Measures 18” x 34” with mat. Near fine condition. Sold for $3,025.
FREE APPRAISAL. To buy, auction, sell or consign your Vintage David Bowie signature that is for sale, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com).